Jobs in UAE - Consulting Chief of Staff (Director) at PwC – UAE
Consulting Chief of Staff (Director) at PwC – UAE
Job Description:
- Helping to develop strategic priorities by assisting the ME Consulting Leader to identify the areas where he must direct his focus and identifying metrics for success. Revisiting regularly and evaluating progress.
- Strategically managing a leader’s time: working with his assistant, looking at long term travel calendar, evaluating opportunities and determining fit with priorities.
- Creating & updating dashboards for reviewing key performance indicators
- Meeting preparation and follow up: reviewing upcoming meetings to ensure the leader has all of the information needed to be as productive as possible and sending out agendas or documents to meeting attendees as necessary.
- Reviewing internal and external communications as required: coordinating and assisting in the drafting newsletters, reports, speeches or presentations for the ME Consulting Leader.
- Monitoring information flow: Sometimes acting as a gatekeeper, ensuring the ME Consulting Leader’s involvement in a project or decision-making process at the right moment.
- Managing the meeting agenda for the Consulting Partner meeting, Executive Leadership team, the Business Unit and Country Leaders Quarterly Business Reviews meetings and other leadership meetings as required, ensuring materials are sent in advance, time spent if optimised, objectives are achieved and amy minutes recorded.
- Participates in programme management, which involves duties on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis by having oversight of the large, often cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives.
- For specific projects, being responsible for the programme management, organising and gathering information from various departments and meetings and reporting that information, along with recommendations, to executive members. Researching, benchmarking, analyzing data, and making recommendations.
- Coordinate with LoS MERC to understand project pipeline realisation, dependencies and interdependencies and analyse against the delivery capacity to ensure a consistent approach to operational activities/decisions.
- Responsible for delegated activities and represent / support the LoS Lead, COO and BU Leads as appropriate on a range of strategic and operational matters;
- Evaluate MERC resources to ensure the availability of the necessary skills and expertise and to realise staff potential. Ensure that all new MERC staff are inducted and trained on PwC’s policies, procedures and standards
- Any other ad-hoc duties as required for the strategic assistance for the ME Consulting Leader.
Job Requirements:
Technical Knowledge/ Skills/ Training required:
- Thorough understanding and experience in the consulting industry
- Strong stakeholder management and demonstrable influencing skills particularly with very senior leadership; proven track record of working within complex stakeholder networks.
- A strong problem-solver and able to work calmly under pressure.
- Strong project management skills; ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and deliver projects on time, sometimes to strict deadlines
- Comfortable managing and leading people including being able to delegate effectively and appropriately
- A strong understanding of business and current affairs including a thorough knowledge of the economic, political and business drivers impacting the Consulting LoS and professional services in particular.
- Strategic cost reduction / value creation
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